Pride can’t be quarantined: LGBTIQ+ rights in the Americas

For the first time in the history of the sexual non-conformity and diversity movements in the Americas, LGBTIQ+ Pride marches have been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this has not prevented organizations, groups, leaders and people who defend LGBTIQ+ rights from organizing a series of activities – the vast majority online – to send messages of solidarity and hope, as well as forceful demands to states. Now more than ever, the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, transvestite, intersex and queer people must be heard, and organizations that support them…

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